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17-Sep-2025

Decoding tea’s leaf microbiome: New clues to fighting blister blight

A research team provides a detailed picture of how the leaf surface microbiome of tea plants responds to infection, uncovering key microbial interactions and chemical changes that could help farmers combat this disease more sustainably.

Journal: Beverage Plant Research

17-Sep-2025

eDNA can help detect kelp-derived carbon on ocean floor

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers, led by a team at Bigelow Laboratory, have developed environmental DNA tools to measure kelp deposition and examine the biological communities living in sediments below Gulf of Maine kelp farms, which could help inform carbon dioxide removal efforts.

Journal: PLOS One

17-Sep-2025

Tea plants arm themselves: two key receptors trigger herbivore defenses

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

Plants must defend themselves against relentless insect herbivores.

Journal: Horticulture Research

17-Sep-2025

Study provides first evidence that plastic nanoparticles can accumulate in the edible parts of vegetables

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In first-of-its-kind research, scientists from the University of Plymouth have shown how tiny plastic particles can enter vegetables through their roots and accumulate in the parts we eat.

Journal: Environmental Research
Funder: Seale-Hayne Educational Trust

17-Sep-2025

Reindeer grazing can mitigate the impacts of winter climate change on forest carbon release

University of Oulu, Finland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Winter climate change is affecting the carbon exchange of northern coniferous forests, but the response depends upon reindeer grazing, according to a new study from the University of Oulu, Finland. The study compared areas with ongoing reindeer grazing to areas where grazing has been excluded for 25 years at Oulanka and as long as 55 years at Kevo.

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

16-Sep-2025

Sustainable, plant-based diet benefits both human and planetary health

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A diet focused on healthy plant-based foods may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by Solomon Sowah and colleagues from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, published September 16^th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

16-Sep-2025

Study highlights importance of dedicated exits for vulnerable populations in building evacuations

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

A research team has demonstrated how advanced drone-based thermal imaging can be used to more accurately measure canopy temperature (CT) in wheat fields by disentangling experimental signals from environmental and technical noise.

Journal: Plant Phenomics